Actress Quotes

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!